Today Thursday, the 22nd of March of 2018 is the 81st day of 2018.
There are 284 days left in the year.
91 days until summer begins...
229 days until mid-term elections on Tuesday November 6, 2018
(7 months and 15 days from today)
957 days presidential elections until Tuesday November 3, 2020
(2 years 7 months and 12 days from today)
The sun rises at 7:09 am
and sunset will be at 7:25 pm.
Today we will have 12 hours and 16 minutes of daylight.
Solar noon will be at 1:17 pm.
The first high tide was at 3:17 am
and the next high tide will be at 4:51 pm.
The first low tide will be at 9:48 am
and the next low tide at 9:40 pm.
The Moon is currently 26.6% visible; a Waxing Crescent
Moon Direction:↑ 350.70° N
Moon Altitude:-36.37°
Moon Distance:232298 mi
Next Full Moon: Saturday March 31, 2018 at 5:36 am
Next New Moon:Sunday April 15, 2018 at 6:57 pm
Next Moonrise: Today at 10:39 am
Today is…
As Young as You Feel Day
National Bavarian Crêpes Day
National Goof-off Day
National Sing Out Day
It’s also…
Emancipation Day or Día de la Abolición de la Esclavitud (Puerto Rico)
On this date in Women’s History:
March 22, 1972 – Congress passes the Equal Rights Amendment, which granted equal rights for women but was never ratified by the required number of states.
and born on this day, March 22, 1899 (d.1991) – Ruth Page, began ballet in 1919, first American to be accepted into the Ballets Russes, first masterpiece as choreographer was Frankie and Johnny (1938), combined opera and ballet in a school for young dancers
Also if today is your birthday, Happy Birthday To You! You share this day with…
Today's Birthdays:
1887 – Chico Marx, American actor (d. 1961)
1892 – Charlie Poole, American country banjo player (d. 1931)
1902 – Madeleine Milhaud, French actress and composer (d. 2008)
1908 – Louis L'Amour, American novelist and short story writer (d. 1988)
1909 – Gabrielle Roy, Canadian author and educator (d. 1983)
1912 – Karl Malden, American actor (d. 2009)
1920 – Werner Klemperer, German-American actor (d. 2000)
1923 – Marcel Marceau, French mime and actor (d. 2007)
1928 – Carrie Donovan, American journalist (d. 2001)
1930 – Pat Robertson, American minister and broadcaster, founded the Christian Broadcasting Network
1930 – Stephen Sondheim, American composer and songwriter
1931 – William Shatner, Canadian actor
1933 – Abolhassan Banisadr, Iranian economist and politician, 1st President of Iran
1934 – Orrin Hatch, American lawyer and politician
1940 – Haing S. Ngor, Cambodian-American physician and author (d. 1996)
1941 – Bruno Ganz, Swiss actor
1943 – George Benson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1946 – Rivka Golani, Israeli viola player and composer
1948 – Wolf Blitzer, American journalist
1948 – Andrew Lloyd Webber, English composer and director
1949 – Fanny Ardant, French actress, director, and screenwriter
1955 – Lena Olin, Swedish actress
1957 – Stephanie Mills, American actress and singer
1963 – Susan Ann Sulley, English pop singer (The Human League)
1971 – Actor-comedian Keegan-Michael Key.
Also on this day in history…
In 1312, Pope Clement V issued a papal bull ordering dissolution of the Order of the Knights Templar.
In 1765, the British Parliament passed the Stamp Act to raise money from the American colonies, which fiercely resisted the tax. (The Stamp Act was repealed a year later.)
1871 – In North Carolina, William Woods Holden becomes the first governor of a U.S. state to be removed from office by impeachment.
1872 – Illinois becomes the first state to require gender equality in employment.
to the states for ratification.
1882 – Congress outlawed polygamy. | |
1895 – In what is generally regarded as the first public display of a movie projected onto a screen, Auguste and Louis Lumiere showed their first movie – the one-minute "Employees Leaving the Lumiere Factory" – to an invited audience in Paris. |
In 1941, the Grand Coulee hydroelectric dam in Washington state officially went into operation.
1962 --Barbra Streisand made her Broadway debut at age 19 in the musical "I Can Get it For You Wholesale" at the Shubert Theater. | |
1965 --Bob Dylan's album "Bringing It All Back Home," his first featuring electric guitar, was released. |
On March 22, 1968, President Lyndon B. Johnson announced that Gen. William C. Westmoreland, the commander of American forces in Vietnam, would leave that post to become the U.S. Army's new Chief of Staff.
Students at the University of Nanterre in suburban Paris occupied the school's administration building in a prelude to massive protests in France that began the following May.
The first Red Lobster restaurant opened in Lakeland, Florida.
In 1988, both houses of Congress overrode President Ronald Reagan's veto of the Civil Rights Restoration Act.
1990 -- A jury in Anchorage, Alaska, found former tanker captain Joseph Hazelwood innocent of three major charges in connection with the Exxon Valdez oil spill, but convicted him of a minor charge of negligent discharge of oil. | |
1993 – The Intel Corporation ships the first Pentium chips (80586), featuring a 60 MHz clock speed, 100+ MIPS, and a 64 bitdata path. | |
1997 -- Tara Lipinski of the United States became the youngest women's world figure skating champion at age 14 years, 10 months. | |
2006 -- The Basque separatist group ETA announced a permanent cease-fire with Spain. | |
2010 -- Google announced it would stop censoring search results on its site in China by shifting it from the mainland to Hong Kong. |
Five years ago: The Internal Revenue Service said it was a mistake for employees to have made a $60,000 six-minute training video spoofing "Star Trek" and "Gilligan's Island."
One year ago:
A knife-wielding man plowed a car into pedestrians on London's Westminster Bridge, killing four people, then stabbed an armed police officer to death inside the gates of Parliament before being shot dead by authorities.
A northern Wisconsin man went on a shooting rampage, killing two of his wife's co-workers, her divorce attorney and a police officer before being shot by police; he died 10 days later in the hospital.
Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch wrapped up two days of Senate questioning to glowing GOP reviews but complaints from frustrated Democrats that he had concealed his views from the American public.